Tobacco Inspection

The Department of Agriculture (Department) is adopting as a final rule, the regulations for flue-cured tobacco to more accurately describe tobacco as it presently appears at the marketplace. The revision will add a new provision to the official grade standards for flue-cured tobacco to denote that any lot of baled tobacco that has not been opened for inspection be graded by the exterior only. Additional bale dimensions and space requirements will be established for uniform marketing display in the warehouses, and a revision will be made in the poundage adjustment for a warehouse selling in excess of the sales schedule for designated and undesignated producer tobacco.